EDINA ANNUAL REPORT for the Academic Year 2008/2009

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APPENDIX 6: Conferences, Courses and Presentations

Conferences, Presentations and Exhibitions

September 2008

  • CILIP CIG (Cataloguing and Indexing) conference, Glasgow
  • 'Combining Data from all Digimap Collections: the exciting world of practical interoperability' presentation to Map Curator's Group of the British Cartographic Society, Newport Pagnall
  • e-Science All Hands conference, Edinburgh
  • DRHA conference, Cambridge
  • Data availability presentation, ESRI/CHEST, Leeds
  • Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World Urbis, Manchester
  • European Digital library conference, DORDSL2 workshop, Denmark
  • AGI conference, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Dublin Core conference, Germany
  • iPRES, London

October 2008

  • Internet Librarian International conference, London
  • RLUK conference, Leeds
  • JISC Collections Roadshow, Manchester
  • 'Facebook: a network, a research tool, a world?' workshop, Liverpool
  • RSC Scotland Virtual Worlds conference, Stirling
  • Edinburgh Libraries' Fair, Edinburgh
  • VII Workshop on Digital Libraries, Presentation, Murcia, Spain
  • RSC NW/YH workshop, Manchester

November 2008

  • WePreserve conference, Nice, France
  • Guardian Changing Media Summit, London
  • AGI Scotland conference, Edinburgh
  • SLIC FE conference, Edinburgh

December 2008

  • Online Information conference, London
  • International Digital Curation conference "Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?", Edinburgh
  • AGU Conference, San Francisco

January 2009

  • BETT Show at Olympia, London

February 2009

  • JISC 'Developer Happiness Days' conference, UCL, London
  • Ordnance Survey's Terrafuture conference, Royal Geographic Society, London
  • ASA Conference, London
  • UKRDS conference, London

March 2009

  • Radical Statistics conference and AGM, Oxford
  • Unlocking Audio conference, London
  • AGI Technical SIG Free and OpenSource Software Event, Cambridge
  • Intrallect User conference, Edinburgh
  • JISC conference, Edinburgh
  • UKSG (UK Serials' Group) annual conference, Devon
  • International Repositories Institutional workshop, Amsterdam

April 2009

  • GISRUK (GIS Research UK), Durham
  • The e-Science Institute Public Lecture - "Adding Semantics to Geographic Data Models", Edinburgh
  • Learning on Screen conference, London

May 2009

  • PGCon 2009 - PostgreSQL Conference for Users and Developers at University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Visual Archive conference, Milton Keynes
  • IASSIST conference, Finland

June 2009

  • Persistent Testbed workshop at AGILE 2009, Hanover
  • GSDI11 conference, Rotterdam
  • NASIG Annual conference, North Carolina
  • OAI conference, Geneva
  • JISC Digital Content conference, Gloucestershire
  • AGILE conference, Hanover
  • RSC North West Annual Event
  • Library Show, Birmingham
  • RSC East Midlands e-fair, Leicester
  • "First Open Source GIS UK" conference, Nottingham
  • GeoDATA 2009 conference, Edinburgh
  • @media 2009, London
  • Europython conference, Birmingham

July 2009

  • HE Academy conference exhibition, Manchester
  • Repository Fringe, Edinburgh

Meetings and Courses

August 2008

  • Netskills course "CSS: Techniques, Tips and Tactics", Edinburgh
  • AGI Scotland Board meeting, Edinburgh
  • University Web Publishers Clinic, Edinburgh
  • Web Development with PHP course, Edinburgh
  • IntraLibrary v3 technical training, Edinburgh

September 2008

  • Meeting with RSAMD, Glasgow
  • Understanding Organisational Cultures, Impact on Repository Growth workshop, Cranfield
  • JISC Comms & Marketing quarterly forum, London
  • JISC Services Skills Event 2: Illuminating Event Management, Oxford
  • Strategic Content Alliance Scotland Forum, Edinburgh
  • ITIL Services Improvement course, Edinburgh
  • Scottish Geography Steering Group meeting, Edinburgh

October 2008

  • DNF feature catalogue workshop London
  • NewsFilm Online launch, London
  • Oracle Scottish User Group meeting, Glasgow
  • Scottish Alliance for Geoscience Environment Society meeting, Edinburgh
  • UKSG Serials Practitioners workshop, Birmingham
  • Sun Virtualisation course, London
  • DAF and DRAMBORA Launch, London
  • Director of ISSN National Centres meeting, Tunisia
  • EDINA Management Board, Edinburgh
  • AGILE Council meeting, Madrid

November 2008

  • Census Advisory Committee meeting, London
  • JISC Film and Sound Think Tank, London
  • Ex Libris Product Group meeting, British Library, Boston Spa
  • iPhone Tech Talks course, London
  • JANET IPTV briefing day, Cambridge
  • The Chris Date Seminar: A Relational Approach to SQL, Edinburgh
  • Introduction to Unix training course, Edinburgh
  • Consorcio Madrono Research Data Seminar UNED, Madrid, Spain
  • IT Futures conference, Edinburgh
  • Implementing a Shibboleth 2 Service provider, Manchester
  • SPARC Digital Repositories meeting, Baltimore
  • JISC Collections AGM, London
  • SPLINT CETL Board meeting, Leicester

December 2008

  • OGC training course, Valencia
  • HATII Symposium, Glasgow
  • Archiving in Digital Cartography and Geoinformation workshop, Berlin
  • Presentation skills course, Edinburgh
  • ESRI-Chest Focus Group meeting, London

January 2009

  • JISC GWG meeting, Edinburgh
  • INSPIRE DPS workshop, London
  • Metadata issues and Web 2.0 Services seminar, Edinburgh
  • Sun ZFS course, London
  • GIGAS meeting, Brussels
  • Introduction to Qualitative Analysis course, Edinburgh
  • Writing up Qualitative Analysis course, Edinburgh
  • DISC-UK DataShare "Data Walkabout" series of meetings and talks, various locations Australia and New Zealand
  • Open Educational Content - Funding Opportunity Information Meeting, Birmingham
  • Shared Environmental Information workshop, Wallingford

February 2009

  • SUETr Event - Embedding Repositories, Lincoln
  • ESDS - What's in it for Librarians, Royal Statistical Society, London
  • JISC Digital Media Launch, Glasgow
  • UKRDS (UK Research Data Service) meeting, Royal Society, London
  • eSDI-Net Best Practices workshop, Liverpool

March 2009

  • ELISA eContent and Web Group meeting, Edinburgh
  • JISC Film & Sound Think Tank meeting, London
  • Visit from Ian Dolphin, International Director e-framework, to EDINA to give a talk
  • Janet training course on installing a shibboleth service provider, Cambridge
  • SUETr Multimedia training event, York
  • EDINA Management Board, Edinburgh
  • Geospatial Working Group meeting with UKSDI, London
  • Scottish Geography Steering Group, Edinburgh

April 2009

  • The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users workshop, Edinburgh
  • Scotland on Rails [2], Edinburgh
  • Registers of Scotland visit to EDINA
  • Presentation from Gary Priestnall and James Goulding, University of Nottingham at EDINA offices re mobile technologies
  • Video Archiving workshop, Edinburgh
  • Place Matters: Implementing the UK Location Strategy meeting, London

May 2009

  • Defra UK SDI workshop, Edinburgh
  • ESRC census advisory and Innovations workshop. RSS, London
  • JISC Services Communications and Marketing forum, London
  • JISC Geospatial Working Group meeting, London

June 2009

  • RLIS National Co-ordination Committee meeting, British Library
  • Scottish Visual Arts Group (SVAG) meeting, Dundee
  • Web Services workshop, British Library, London
  • Plans for the 2011 census meeting, Royal Statistical Society, London
  • Visit to EDINA from Kevin McDonough from Novoda - presentation about Google Android platform
  • Strategic Content Alliance workshop, Glasgow
  • Workshop for eResources Providers, JISC-funded Interface Study, Cardiff
  • Improving your online presence course, Edinburgh
  • Ephemeral Media Workshop 1: Internet Attractions: online video and user-generated ephemera, Nottingham

July 2009

  • RSC Eastern efair, Epping Forest College
  • Enterprise, engagement and new communications: Web 2.0 in the library course/seminar, Edinburgh
  • Advisory and Support Staff Symposium, Aston Business School Conference Centre, Birmingham
  • EDINA Management Board, Edinburgh

Training and Demonstrations

October 2008

  • Multimedia Training Services course, Leicester
  • Intro to EDINA Digimap / Visualisation using ArcGIS, Edinburgh

November 2008

  • MasterMap User training, Edinburgh

December 2008

  • Digimap Essentials course, Edinburgh

January 2009

  • Digimap training course, Newcastle
  • Digimap / ArcGIS training course, Edinburgh

February 2009

  • MasterMap training course, Open University, Milton Keynes

March 2009

  • Multimedia Training Services course, London
  • Introduction to NewsFilm Online (1 hour online workshop)
  • Digimap Collections Site Rep. Information, (1 hour online workshop)
  • Digimap training course, Leeds
  • MasterMap training course,York

April 2009

  • Digimap OS Collections Data Download services, (1 hour online workshop)

May 2009

  • Multimedia Training Services course, Manchester
  • Introduction to NewsFilm Online (1 hour online workshop)

June 2009

  • Digimap training course, University of Exeter
  • Digimap Essentials, Nottingham

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